Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Costs of Crap
The relative crappiness of something is the distance between what it promises and what it delivers. We communicate a great deal through the things that we buy, he says. And so if most of our material language today is made up of crap, then our very motive expressing ourselves and understanding who we are is kind of depressing too.
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